What You Will Learn from This Book

Reading this book will make you an official Swift programmer and allow you to write real-world, production-quality apps. You’ll write apps that take advantage of the most advanced features of Swift, so you’ll be writing refined, clean code. After reading this book, you’ll be able to create any app you want in Swift. Here are just a few things you will learn while reading this book:

■ How to combine existing Objective-C code into new Swift applications

■ How to use advanced features like generics to write less code

■ How to create optionals as a quicker way to make sure your code doesn’t crash at runtime due to nonexistent values

■ How to write closures to pass around little blocks of functionality, which can ...

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